Sentence examples for suppression cost from inspiring English sources

For the purposes of this article, the costs and benefits of using new technology focused on the fire suppression cost component, e.g. equipment cost and use, and the respective opportunity costs.

The fire destroyed 254 homes, and final loss and suppression cost estimates of $160,000,000 make the Angora Fire one of the ten costliest wildfires in US history.

The 90,674 wildland fires that burned 2.9 million ha at an estimated suppression cost of $1.6 billion in the United States during the 2000 fire season demonstrated that forest fuel loading has become a hazard to life, property, and ecosystem health as a result of past fire exclusion policies and practices.

In 1985, wildfire suppression cost the U.S. Forest Service about $240 million.

Voter suppression cost the Democrats some votes, but not nearly as many as their failure to be a true progressive alternative did.

"We're going to be looking at fire suppression costs far in excess of what we have available".

Federal policies favoring private contract firefighters over public agency firefighters have fueled a sharp rise in suppression costs in the 1990's, along with increased arson incidents.

The Forest Service's 2008 report on the smoke jumper program estimated that it saves millions of dollars annually in fire suppression costs.

The 2008 fire season led to almost $2.2m in hospital costs in the Reno-Sparks area of Nevada, while the 78,000 wildfires in California between 1999 and 2013 burned approximately 3.8m acres and incurred more than $4bn in suppression costs, a recent Union of Concerned Scientists study reports.

Second, homes in the WUI drive wildfire suppression costs (not to mention safety concerns) and this interactive map and tables shows the level of WUI development at both county and state levels and also what's not developed in terms of future costs.

The Great Fire of 1910 in Montana and Idaho, which burned 3m acres in a matter of hours convinced government and public that fire must be controlled, which gave way to policy responsible for our present day situation—suppression costs exceeding $1 billion annually and seemingly routine loss of life and property.